The Rani of Jhansi: Gender, History, and Fable in India - Harleen Singh - Google Books

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Colonial texts often read the Indian woman warrior as a cultural anomaly, but Indian texts find recourse in the mythological examples of the female warrior. Rani Lakshmi Bai's remaking transforms the mythologically viable, yet socially marginal, figure of…